The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 54

No sooner did it touch him than the Tanuki leapt yelling into the air, and the hare laughed, and ran to tell his friend the peasant what a trick he had played on their enemy.

Who acts: ointment, Tanuki, hare · What happens: touch, leapt, yell, laugh, run, tell · To what, where: hare, air, peasant, friend, trick, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ointment, Tanuki, hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 touch	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 touch	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touch	nsubj
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touch	obj
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 leapt	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tanuki	det
9	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 leapt	nsubj
10	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 touch	advcl
11	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 leapt	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yelling	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laughed	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hare	det
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laughed	nsubj
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 touch	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ran	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ran	cc
22	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 laughed	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ran	xcomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 friend	nmod:poss
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 peasant	det
28	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 tell	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 trick	det
31	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 what	nsubj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 played	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 played	aux
34	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 trick	acl:relcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 enemy	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 enemy	nmod:poss
37	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 played	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	past · do-support	ointment	hare			soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	leapt	past	the Tanuki					tree rules
3	yell speech: express	gerund	the Tanuki not said here			the air		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into air=Recipient
4	laugh	past	the hare					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	run	past	the hare not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the hare not said here	the peasant	hare's friend			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient peasant=Topic
7	play	past · perfect	hare	a trick not said here		friends's enemy		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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